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Poster:	Chief Archivist	Date:	December 12, 2008 03:23:32pm
Forum:	forums	Subject:	Obvious Problem or Not? (Please Reply)

Hello,

I'm having a problem with Wayback Machine Archives and really need some help. Whenever I try to visit a certain website from the year 2001, I get the following message: "No cookie. To access this site your browser must be accepting cookies."

What do I do? I really want to get to the website.

Thank you!

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Poster:	kustota	Date:	December 12, 2008 06:49:29pm
Forum:	forums	Subject:	Re: Obvious Problem or Not? (Please Reply)

most possibly that page wasn't archived correctly (server gave the crawler 'no cookie' thing instead of the page). you didn't give a link though, so i can't tell for sure.

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Poster:	Chief Archivist	Date:	December 14, 2008 03:51:19pm
Forum:	forums	Subject:	Re: Obvious Problem or Not? (Please Reply)

Oh, I hope that’s not the problem. But here is the link(s) --
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bionicle.com :: the 2001 column, and....

http://web.archive.org/web/20010701003616rn_3/www.lego.com/_mem_bin/nocookie.asp?/bionicle/?wfx2=lh2hj34l8s


I’m also getting the following message occasionally when I try one of the pages:
"Redirect Error. Sorry, the page can't be retrieved because it is being redirected to itself. (...sometimes this happens in the archive. We're working on it!) Try another request or click here to search for all pages on lego.com/plugin/required.asp?callFrom=&pluginType=0&returnURL=/eng/bionicle/default.asp"

Have a nice day!

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Poster:	kustota	Date:	December 14, 2008 06:53:23pm
Forum:	forums	Subject:	Re: Obvious Problem or Not? (Please Reply)

yes, that 'no cookie' page is certainly generated by lego.com server.

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Poster:	Chief Archivist	Date:	December 16, 2008 06:44:29pm
Forum:	forums	Subject:	Re: Obvious Problem or Not? (Please Reply)

So that message means that there is no way to access the old version of that page, for any of the dates?

Thank you for your help.

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Poster:	kustota	Date:	December 16, 2008 11:38:38pm
Forum:	forums	Subject:	Re: Obvious Problem or Not? (Please Reply)

you can use advanced search, for example:

http://web.archive.org/web/1999-2004*ir_/http://bionicle.com/*

if it doesn't help, most probably nothing will. what could not be archived, wasn't.

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Poster:	Chief Archivist	Date:	December 18, 2008 10:35:48am
Forum:	forums	Subject:	Re: Obvious Problem or Not? (Please Reply)

Okay. I searched as you recommended, but only pages from 2004 appear for the website. I will search more later.

Also I'm confused, because some pages (like those branched off from the site) exclusively work while the main website itself will not.